How Conservative is Princeton

trominos
Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:43:29 +0000

Cicero said:

Respect other people’s opinions. I don’t insult your opinions, so don’t insult Dbate’s opinions.



Some opinions are better than others.

If you tell me that you want to kill ten percent of the people in a country, I’ll listen to you politely and then, if you seem to be serious, I’ll have you institutionalized.

Opposing gay marriage is much less egregious—rather than kill them, you just want to legally denigrate ten percent of the people in a country for no good reason. So I won’t call the cops, and I might even end up being friends with you. But you should expect that it’ll worsen my first impression of you.

(Note: dunno if the proportion of gays in society is actually ten percent.)